Case Institute Of Technology; A Centennial History 1880-1980
Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 314 pages. Illustrations. Introduction: The Genesis of Engineering Schools in Europe and the United States. Appendix A, B, and C. Notes. Index. C. H. Cramer, Historian, 1902–1983. Awarded the 1973 Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature. Cramer’s eight books still come alive because he knew the secrets of telling a good story, whether it be the life of the great 19th-century orator and debunker of “old-time religion” Robert G. Ingersoll, or his history of the dental school at CWRU—the campus Cramer called home for three decades. The WWII years found Cramer in Washington, D.C., where he would serve as director in charge of recruitment, first for the Board of Economic Warfare and then for the National War Labor Board. After the war, he spent three years trying “to help repair the ravages of the conflict”—first as personnel director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration’s displaced persons operation in war-torn Germany. In 1949, Cramer accepted the only other academic appointment of his career—with the history department of Western Reserve University, where the distinguished historian Carl Wittke, his old mentor from OSU, was now dean of the graduate school. It was only after being named emeritus professor of history in 1974 that he was able to turn again to his first love, storytelling. He wrote a history of the university for its centennial in 1976, as well as histories of its law school (1977), its school of library science (1979) and its dental school (1982). The author recreates succession of memorable names and events; the founding of the college in the Ohio wilderness; president George Edmond Pierce, who led the college to preeminence in mathematics and science, thereby earning the school a reputation as the “Yale of the West”; the famed Michelson-Morley experiment; the college’s move to Cleveland; the battles waged for and against coeducation in the 1880s; and more. Spirited writing – very insightful and historical. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Case Western Reserve, University, Centennial, Applied Science, Engineering, Athletics, Music, Leonard Case, Charles Howe, Keith Glennan, Robert Morse, William Wickenden, Louis Toepfler, Cady Staley
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